Airport 79 - The Concorde

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The fourth helping of 'Airport' adventure was subtitled The Concorde, and inevitably the film suffered from the law of diminishing returns. This time the plot dealt with an international arms dealer (Robert Wagner) who attempts to sabotage the Concorde on three separate occasions in an effort to destroy some incriminating evidence against him which is being carried by one of the passengers (Susan Blakely).

The movie was made entirely to the tried and tested formula, with two-dimensional characters taking second place to the aircraft itself and the in-flight drama which threatens its destruction.

George Kennedy (again!) played the pilot, and the large cast under David Lowell Rich's equally formula direction  included Sylvia Kristel, Eddie Albert, Charo (The Love Plane?), Martha Raye, Cicely Tyson and Ed Begley Jr.